The initiative to draw more women to the program began in 2007 by Kathleen Baumgardner[4], CSU’s College Strategic Communications director. At that time, women attending the college grew by 38.2 percent.

“Engineering enrollments are up at CSU, but the number of freshmen women in all of our programs has doubled,” Baumgardner said.

The college has also focused on recruiting female faculty, with eleven tenured female faculty members in 2011, compared to five in 2006.

“Since we’ve seen this increase in women, we’ve added such programs as the School of Biomedical Engineering and expect to see even more dramatic growth in women enrolled in engineering,” Interim Dean Steven Abt said. “This fall, we’re expecting to see the largest number of women ever in our programs.”